Hello Cf Family,
I am wondering how you guy's contain your used epoxy and gel coats for disposal. Let me explain.

After you build parts, what's  have left over, cured or not cured  product,  isn't enough to dispose of every day, so what do you put your "WASTE IN" to accumulate enough to take to your HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY.

I have contacted my local Hazardous waste  facility, which is not to far from my workshop, but to take a cup or two of product would not make since. so I want to place it in a waste container that would be suitable till I make the trip every 3 days to get rid of it.


Thanks in advance!

I hope you guy's understand what I am asking.......

I use an old metal drum, the type with a lid that is secured by a "rim" and a snap lock handle on the "rim"  I have put a few small vent holes in the lid, to prevent a build up of pressure.  The drum is stored in my outdoors open shed.

I normally try to "cure off" any remaining resin and hardener by mixing it up before disposing off it, this generally leaves the stuff "inert" and a lot less messy.

Leftover Polyester I normally just add a few drops of MEKP to and leave partly open outside in the open shed..  vapours stay outside, the stuff cures solid and is then taken wih the rest in old paint cans or the original cans to the local waste deposit.

Trimmed off cured composite "waste" is not considered hazardous waste here, it goes int the normal bin, along with all the rest of the combustible waste.

Dust from grinding and cutting off goes into my vacuum extration "cyclone" and into a bag, that goes into normal industrial combustible waste.

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